High Alert Drug List interpretation

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Jennifer Turple
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High Alert Drug List interpretation

Hello,

When referring to the high alert drug list, certain classes of medications are included in addition to individuals agents.
With respect to the classes, IV moderate sedation agents, do folks include IV phenobarbital in this group? With it is not a sedative per se, it has significant sedative properties and could be very harmful when used in error.
Just wondering how folks move from classes to considering how individual drugs may or may not fit into a classification. As you might imagine, referring to a class/classification can lead to differing interpretations.

We are a pediatric hospital debating about IV and PO phenobarb.

Thanks
Jen Turple
IWK Health Centre
Halifax, NS
Canada